Hydrocarbon-motor.



No. 879,659. PATENTED FEB. 18, 1908.

A. A. LOW.

HYDROGARBON MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1907.

Xxwwkmc UNITED STATES PATENT onnron- ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF HORSESHOE, NEW YORK.

HYDROCARB ON-MO'IOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, .1908.

Application filed May 22. 1907. Serial No. 375.009.

-motors, and are designed to effect the pre-- liminary heating of vaporizing plates in the chambers in which the hydro carbon is mixed with air preparatory to its introduction into the combustion chambers.

The invention consists in the special construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, is a sectional elevation of the parts of a 1110- tor essential to an understanding of my invention; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation upon a reduced scale of a series or gang of hydro carbon motorsillustrating the practical application of my invention. v

The motors are of any ordinary or desired type, each of those shown in the drawings having the combustion chamber a, above the piston P, in the cylinder C, the products of combustion being discharged through the port 0, and valve 0 M is the'mixing chamber into Which the hydro carbon is introduced through the injectors I, to be mixed with air admitted through the conduit (Z.v The liquid hydro carbon thus injected impinges against the so called vaporizing plate 1/2., in the present case consistmg of the inclined floor of the mixing chamber, M.

The object of the invention being to eiiect the preliminary heating of the mixing chamher, and particularly of the vaporizing plate m, I form under the latter a heating chamber m, into which a heating medium is insecure by Letters Patent is,

troduced from an external heating device H, of any suitable character, shown symbolically in the drawings.

Where a series or gang of'motors are operated together I connect the heating chafibers m, successively one with the other by conduits m as shown in Fig. 2, a damper or valve m being inserted in the discharge con duit m, to .control the flow of the heating medium. In like manner and fol a like purpose, a damper h, is interposed in the conduit h, connecting the heater, H with the first heating chamber What I claim as myinvention and desire to 1. A plurality of hydro carbon motors each formed with a mixing chamber and a heatlng chamber with a vaporizing plate interposed between them, a conduit connect in-g each of said heating chambers with the next in the series, an external heater arranged to introduce a heating medium into the heating chamber in the first motor, and

a conduit for conveying ofi the heating medium from the .last heating chamber of the series.

, 2. A plurality of. hydro carbon motors each formed Will} a mixing chamber, and a heating chamber with a vaporizing-pirate interposed between them, conduits connecting each of said heating chambers with the next in the series, an externalheater arranged to introduce a healing medium-into the heating chamber in the first motor, a conduit for conveying off the heating medium from. the last heating chaniber of the series, and a damper in said conduit for regulating the escape of the heating medium.

ABBOI AUGUSTUS LOI'V. I/Vitnesses D. W. GARDnER, GEO. WM. Mini? 

